Monaco is smaller than Central Park, so its film locations tend to cluster. Nearly all of them sit around one square: the Place du Casino, with the Casino de Monte-Carlo on one side and the Hôtel de Paris on the other. The hotel opened in 1864, has a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV, and emerged from a renovation reported at around $280 million. It has also appeared in films for nearly as long as there have been films.
The Red Shoes (1948)
Powell and Pressburger's ballet melodrama, about a dancer torn between love and art, features the hotel during its Monte Carlo sequences. The film won two Academy Awards, for Art Direction and Original Score, and is regularly ranked among the most beautiful films ever made.
The Persuaders! (1971)
The ITC adventure series starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis begins here. In the first episode, Moore's Lord Brett Sinclair and Curtis's Danny Wilde meet for the first time in the hotel bar, where they fight over an olive. Moore would become James Bond two years later.
Two Bond films: Never Say Never Again (1983) and GoldenEye (1995)
Sean Connery's unofficial Bond comeback, Never Say Never Again, uses the hotel and the casino next door, and so does Pierce Brosnan's debut, GoldenEye. In the latter, Bond races Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp along the coast road above Monaco, then meets her properly across a baccarat table at the casino. Ian Fleming's successor novelists have sent Bond here in print as well.
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark comes to Monaco for the Historic Grand Prix, decides to drive in it himself, and is attacked mid-race by Mickey Rourke's Whiplash. The hotel features in the Monaco sequences.
Monte Carlo (2011)
In this teen comedy, Selena Gomez plays a Texan on a disappointing trip to Paris who is mistaken for a British heiress and whisked to Monaco. She and her friends end up staying in the hotel's Grace Kelly suite.
Also filmed here
The hotel also appears in two French films: Pierre Salvadori's Priceless (Hors de prix, 2006), with Audrey Tautou as a gold-digger and Gad Elmaleh as the bartender she mistakes for a millionaire, and Heartbreaker (L'Arnacœur, 2010), with Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis. Anne Fontaine's The Girl from Monaco (2008) filmed here too.
Every title in this guide
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- The Persuaders! (1971)
- Never Say Never Again (1983)
- GoldenEye (1995)
- Priceless (2006)
- The Girl from Monaco (2008)
- Heartbreaker (2010)
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Monte Carlo (2011)
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